AERONAUTICS: Penny Wise

Thirty-two
days drought have caused more forest fires in New York State and New
Jersey than have been seen in a generation. Air Service officers and
the Bureau of Forestry can hardly refrain from "I told you so." For
three years, this Bureau, until its appropriation of $50,000 was cut
off, worked in conjunction with the air service and cut down forest
fires in California and Oregon to an absolute minimum. $100,000 per
year spent on air patrol in New York State would practically remove all
danger of such fires, whose cost in...